Flights from Tehran to Shanghai start at €586.60 and take 12h 43m at their fastest.
The Flights from Tehran to Shanghai starts at €586.60 and takes 12h 43m door to door, run by 1 operator over 6,568 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Almaty, with 55 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 13h 33mCO2 1217.4 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 12h 43mCO2 972.1 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mahan Air | €630.26 | 11h 48m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
Shanghai sits on the water, which usually settles which side of town you want to wake up on. Rooms are not ours to sell.
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
The Flight from Tehran to Shanghai takes 12h 43m door to door, of which 9h 33m is spent moving. The route runs 6,568 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
The Flight from Tehran to Shanghai starts at €586.60 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €658.58. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
1 operators run the Flight from Tehran to Shanghai: Mahan Air. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
The Flight from Tehran to Shanghai leaves from Tehran IKA and arrives at Shanghai SHA. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Fares for the Flight from Tehran to Shanghai bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €473.32. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 192 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Flight from Tehran to Shanghai produces about 972.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 6568 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.
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